End of BBC? Former No 10 advisor launches rival TV station to take on ‘woke’ Corporation.

Sir Robbie Gibb, an ex-senior BBC executive and Theresa May’s former director of communications at Downing Street, is reportedly behind the project to raise money for GB News. The new station is due to launch early next year and aims to take advantage of the growing discontent of the BBC.

Sources have described the new 24-hour station as an antidote to the “woke, wet” Corporation.

The new station has already been given a licence by the broadcasting regulator Ofcom.

Another rival project has also been constructed in the headquarters of Rupert Murdoch’s media company News UK.

The BBC has faced a series of controversies over its decision last week to perform the songs Land of Hope And Glory and Rule Britannia without their patriotic lyrics at the Last Night Of The Proms.

The TV projects are said to cause a rocky start for the BBC’s new director-general Tim Davie who starts his position on Tuesday.

On Friday, Mr Davie’s predecessor, Lord Tony Hall said the BBC was not a “woke corporation”.

He insisted that the removal of the lyrics at the Last Night Of The Proms was done because it would not have been possible to give the songs justice without an audience at the Royal Albert Hall.

The Government has said that the BBC speaks only to a “pro-Remain metropolitan bubble”.

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